accented characters?

pickarooney

I'm trying to figure out how to use accented characters in various applications in KDE 3.1 (Mandrake 9.1 default installation).
I don't seem to have the xev utility, or know where to get it, and I can't figure out what Multi-key corresponds to. I've had a look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1 and found a list of key combos, but they all depend of having a defined multikey. xmodmap doesn't help much either. I added a couple of lines to ~.Xmodmap but to no avail - I don't know what prog/script is supposed to pick it up...

Any quick easy answer to allow me to use <Windows> as a compose key?

niallb

Hi,
the META key is usually used for this. It's [Alt Gr].
Try [Alt Gr] and [;] then press o. You should get ó.
The most common modifiers are ; ' #


http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html
and
http://andrew.triumf.ca/iso8859-1-compose.html

should help you out.

In ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 117 = Multi_key
should set up the windows key for you.

Hope that helps,
NiallB

pickarooney

My keyboard seems to think I'm in Denmark - the only characters I can get with Alt-Gr and all the combos of ;'# are æøêè

Still, it's a start

niallb

[ALT GR] on it's own followed by [a] does give æ
likewise with [o] for ø
[ALT GR] and [;] together followed by [a] gives á.
You need to press the first two together, let go
and then type the key you want modified.

[ALT GR][;] and then [e] gives é for me ?
[ALT GR] and then [e] gives ê
[ALT GR][#] and then [e] gives è
and so on for all the vowels.

[ALT GR][;] and then [c] gives ç
[ALT GR] and [4] gives € (Euro until I preview at least)
[ALT GR] and [c] gives ¢

I don't use KDE but this mechanism has worked
for me for years. KDE may have another input method,
but I would hope it is in addition to this one rather than
instead of it.

Sounds a bit awkward when I write it down, though
I'm using it a long time with no problems!

Niallß

pickarooney

Aahh, the old double-press/release/press combo, not seen since the heydey of Hulk Hogan.

I doff my hat to you sir, a gentleman and a scholar

Rancidmaniac13

I seem to have changed something so that it works for just Alt Gr + a = á.

Can't remember exactly what I did though... Running Ubuntu with Gnome so It was probably through one of those system preferences menus...

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